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11-letter words containing e, t, o, u

  • mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
  • menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
  • meritorious — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
  • merry mount — a settlement in Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), Mass., c1625–28, noted for its rejection of Puritan standards of behavior.
  • mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
  • mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
  • metasequoia — a tall deciduous coniferous tree, Metasequoia glyptostrobodes, first known as a fossil and then discovered alive in China.
  • metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
  • microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
  • milquetoast — a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
  • minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
  • misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
  • misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
  • misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
  • mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
  • mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
  • moisturiser — (British) alternative spelling of moisturizer.
  • moisturized — Simple past tense and past participle of moisturize.
  • moisturizer — a cosmetic preparation, as a cream or lotion, used to restore moisture to the skin, especially of the face and neck.
  • moisturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moisturize.
  • mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
  • momentously — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
  • monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
  • monkey suit — a tuxedo or full-dress suit.
  • monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
  • monoestrous — monestrous.
  • montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
  • montesquieu — (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu) 1689–1755, French philosophical writer.
  • monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
  • mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
  • mossbluiter — the bittern
  • most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
  • most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
  • motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
  • motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
  • motorneuron — Alternative spelling of motor neuron.
  • mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
  • mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • mount pelée — a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
  • mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
  • mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
  • mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
  • mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
  • mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
  • mouth ulcer — oral sore
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • mu-neutrino — muon-neutrino.
  • mucopeptide — Peptidoglycan.
  • mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
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